Room 2 Participation in the School Cross Country

Fair Testing using Paper Planes

In Science we were doing fair testing. We had to fold two different paper planes and fly them 10 times. We calculated distance and time in the air. 

Stained Glass Elective

Students are completing a stained glass window design using gold/silver pens with black for the outline and then watercolours. All on diffused paper. Wow these are amazing!!!!!!!!!

Science Technology Group Task. The Main Organs Of The Human Body

In class we designed and made our own organs of the human body and placed them were we thought they were. Some were way off! But we had a fun time doing it.

My ANZAC Diary

In room 2 this week we have been looking at diary writing while in the trenches during the ANZAC campaign of WW1. Here is an example by Sophia Mansell.

July 5th 1915

Well Diary,                

War is not a nice place. Living in trenches is the worst! Rats as big as cats run around like they own the place, not a single bit scared of us. They contaminate our food and spread disease like fire also feed on corpses.Sometimes they even attack sleeping men.Constant drizzle has made us all wet through in our heavy suits. There's gunfire all around us and shells are exploding. You can sense if a bomb is coming by the silence. A shiver goes up my spine at every explosion. Mud 1 metre deep everywhere.The worst is thinking about home, missing family non-stop. Lice in every man’s seams of their heavy suit incubated by body heat. Nits swarm in the hair of every man and you get you hair shaved to the skull. Disease lurking in every corner and shrapnel slicing through the air and occasionally hitting someone.Seeing friends falling to the ground with a photo of family in their hand. Food so horrible it makes you gag but you force it down because you know it’s your only hope. Rock hard biscuits and watery stew every day and you're desperate for a hot meal. The smell there is blood all other smells are drowned out. Next to you are rotting carcases andyou try not to look. The trench life is almost unbearable better go now I've been called for front line.

I’ll write tomorrow.

Room 2 Class Reading

In reading today the Killer Whales were finishing their worksheet that is based on global warming and the Sharks were doing the book called Cook Strait Kate and the Stingrays are reading a story on Making Toddy in Kiribati. The Dolphins are reading a story on Garden Birds.

Everyone is working independently and quietly with a reading buddy.

Kayaking in Hillary Hits

During Hillary Hits Mrs Hurley's Group went Kayaking in the HNHS pool and the students loved it.

Mamma Mia Snack Pizzas

2B students selected their own toppings and made their own pizzas.
Here are some samples.

Nothing STATIC about Room 2

2b at Food Technology

On Wednesday the 17th of February Room 2 split off into two groups, 2a and 2b. 2b went with Miss Basset, Miss Basset does food tech. We all had already organized to bring some fruit to make fruit kebabs. We all learnt how to cut fruit and now we all know to give a spa to apples, bananas, or pears in lemon juice so they don't go brown so fast! We all wore blue aprons and had our own little tidy up jobs. We also had to find a cooking partner and table to sit with throughout the food tech session. I Stella (a room 2 student) bet all of us can't wait till next week on wednesday for another new and exciting food tech lesson!I Kaiya (another room 2 student) had an amazing time learning how to cut different fruit in different ways.

By Kaiya and Stella

The Final Result! Yum!